Here is a quick command to check the list of installed packages by their size in reverse order. Very useful if you want to remove unwanted rpms just to clean up some space on your disk:
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<td> <div class="text codecolorer"> rpm -q -a --qf "%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n" | sort -k1,1nr |more </div> </td> </tr> Sample output:
78070452 kernel
78060477 kernel
50708634 jre
50316408 libgcj
48581593 wireshark
47778643 gimp
47674675 jre
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